Summer Sports


Top Jamaican sprinter tests positive for banned drugs

By Duncan Mackay

Steve_Mullings_racing_June_2011August 11 - Jamaica's Steve Mullings, the world's third ranked 100 metres this year and one of the favourites for the World Championships in Daegu later this month, has allegedly tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs and is now facing being kicked out of the sport for life, it has been reported today.







Exclusive: "London 2012 will be harder" admits Brownlee

By Tom Degun in London

Alistair_Brownlee_crossing_line_Hyde_Park_August_7_2011August 8 - Britain's Alistair Brownlee is confident that his emphatic victory at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park yesterday will not give away the secret of how to beat him next year when the London 2012 Olympic triathlon takes place on the same course.





British double as Brownlee dominates on London 2012 course

By Duncan Mackay

Alistair_Brownlee_wins_in_Hyde_Park_August_7_2011August 7 - Exactly a year to the day before he hopes to be crowned as Olympic champion on the same course, Alistair Brownlee made it a British double at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park with a dominant victory that underlined his position as the sport's dominant personality.